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These Girls Are Fools was also released as Hell is a Place Called Hollywood (1950) and reissued in 1956, but may have been filmed in the '40s. This is both a time capsule and an ironic oddity. A Hollywood exploitation film about the dangers of exploitation in Hollywood. A naive girl with dreams of stardom lands her first role in a dubious "art film". (You may want to avert your eyes during the skinny dipping sequence.) Unable to get any more film offers, she is forced to work as a...
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Topics: vintage, underground, grind house, exploitation, nudity, 50s, 1950s
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Dec 31, 2020
12/20
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Hopf, Alice Lightner, 1904-
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Bibliography: p. 135-137
Topics: Animal life spans, Plant life spans, Longevity
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Dec 17, 2020
12/20
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Kramer, Jack, 1927-
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Bibliography: p. 140
Topics: Dyes and dyeing, Domestic, Dye plants
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David Attenborough looks at how plants often rely on animals, fungi and each other for food, protection or a home, but they do not always co-exist peacefully.
Topics: Plants, Wind, Travel, Attenborough, Organism, Growing, Pollination
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Kavaler, Lucy; Ott, Richard, illus
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Surveys the versatility of fungi, plants that can cure or kill, can provide food or become parasites, and can be grown under almost any conditions
Topics: Fungi, Fungi
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Coldrey, Jennifer
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Includes index
Topic: Fungi
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Tesar, Jenny E; Carlson, Susan Johnston
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index
Topics: Fungi, Fungi
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Snedden, Robert
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48 pages : 28 cm
Topics: Plant anatomy -- Juvenile literature, Plants -- Juvenile literature, Fungi -- Anatomy -- Juvenile...
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Snedden, Robert
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32 pages : 28 cm
Topics: Fungi -- Juvenile literature, Fungi
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Silverstein, Alvin; Silverstein, Virginia B; Silverstein, Robert A
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Includes index
Topics: Fungi, Fungi
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Mar 27, 2020
03/20
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Rotter, Charles
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32 unnumbered pages : 28 cm
Topics: Fungi -- Juvenile literature, Fungi
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This 1946 color film “The Nature of Color” by Coronet explores the basics of the physics of color. Coronet produced and distributed many documentary shorts, mostly on 19mm, which were widely shown in American public schools from the 1940s to the 1980s. The educational collaborator for “The Nature of Color” was Dr. Ira M. Freeman, who also wrote multiple physics textbooks. The film begins with vintage footage of a rainbow ( 0:29 - 0:35 ). Various color temperatures of sunlight are...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
documentary featurette
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Topics: Volcano, Hawaii, short, documentary, colour
documentary about the eruption of Mt St Helens
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Topics: Mt St Helens, Volcano, eruption, science, study, evacuation, civil defense, proceedure
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Jan 28, 2020
01/20
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Harry Houdini
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A Magician Among The Spirits. Harper and Brothers, 1924.
Topic: Spiritualism
Books contributed by Getty Research Institute . The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences. The range of the collections begins with prehistory and extends to contemporary art.
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Feb 26, 2019
02/19
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Ashby, Romy
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The cutmouth lady -- In a mountain garden I dreamed myself sleeping -- A disenchanted wish -- The pneumatic lanterns -- The burglar of Shijimizuka -- The subconscious museum
Topic: Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Sep 13, 2018
09/18
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Mueller, Cookie; Scholder, Amy
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A collection of stories by a former New York newspaper columnist. They include Abduction & Rape--1969, which is a fiction piece and many advice columns, one of which is on the way to cut your cocaine with a healthy substance. A look at the New York bohemia before it was taken over by yuppies
Topics: Mueller, Cookie, American wit and humor
This collection features vintage educational films from a variety of sources. Films intended for educational purposes are an enormous, often neglected part of the twentieth century media landscape. Archived here are corporate and government sponsored films; classroom academic films instructing students in science and the humanities, and classroom guidance films on sex education, manners, and morality; military training films; medical films aimed at the public or at health practitioners;...
Topics: educational, 16mm Film
